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PRP Injection in Gig Harbor, WA

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Are you suffering from joint pain? Schedule a PRP treatment with us today!

 Joint and muscle pain can dramatically affect your quality of life. Whether you’re suffering from a sports injury or have chronic joint pain, a PRP injection in Gig Harbor, WA, can relieve pain by stimulating your body’s natural regenerative properties. Port Orchard Natural Medicine provides natural, holistic care that can help you take advantage of your body’s healing factors, reducing chronic pain and letting you get back to enjoying your life.

Benefits of Platelet Rich Plasma Injections

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is the portion of your blood that’s responsible for wound healing and natural repair pathways. When you suffer an injury, your body rushes many different cells and healing factors to the wound to kickstart the repair process.

The main healing factor in your blood is the platelet, which helps clot blood and stimulates growth factors that cause cells to regenerate faster. During a PRP injection in Gig Harbor, our trained experts extract your platelets from a sample of your blood and inject them back into the joint or affected area.

 

PRP treatment is excellent at treating both chronic and acute injuries, including:

  • Tennis elbow
  • Plantar fasciitis
  • Osteoarthritis
  • IT band pain
  • Ligament and tendon tears
  • Degenerative disc disease
  • Chronic pain of joints, tendons, ligaments, and muscles

A platelet-rich plasma injection offers a host of benefits over traditional pain and wound healing treatments. These include:

  • Safe: Since the procedure uses the patient’s blood, there is no risk of transmission or allergic reactions.
  • Speeds up healing: By flooding the area with platelets, the body speeds up tissue regeneration, which speeds up healing and reduces pain and inflammation in the affected area.
  • Cost-effective: PRP doesn’t require any additional medication, only your blood, and a centrifuge at the doctor’s office, making it a cost-effective and reliable treatment.
  • Effective as a treatment or a supplementary treatment for bone grafts: A PRP injection in Gig Harbor is an excellent tool for dealing with sports injuries or chronic pain but is also a reliable tool in speeding up procedures such as bone grafts.
  • Versatile: There are many reasons to get a PRP injection—knee, elbow, hip, and shoulder joints can benefit from the infusion of healing factors. It’s also helpful in degenerative conditions such as arthritis and can help repair ligament and tendon tears as well as strains.
  • Minimally invasive: PRP treatment is a non-surgical procedure that takes around an hour to complete. The only invasive aspect of the process is drawing the patient’s blood and then injecting the PRP back into the treatment area.

Difference Between Platelet-Rich Plasma and Stem Cells

Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that can become a wide range of different cells in the body. Platelets are already differentiated cells that perform a specific role in the body, assisting with blood clots and wound healing.

Specialists will extract stem cells from bone marrow or fat deposits, while they’ll extract platelets from your blood through centrifugation.

Both stem cells and platelet-rich plasma assist with healing, but the mechanisms through which the two work are entirely different. Stem cells will differentiate into the tissue that needs healing, such as ligaments, tendons, or even cartilage. A platelet-rich plasma injection works by stimulating existing cells to reproduce and speed up the healing process.

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Port Orchard
Bremerton
Silverdale

Is Platelet-Rich Plasma Safe?

Generally, yes. Since the plasma comes from the patient’s blood, there is no risk of blood-borne disease transmission. Also, because the patient is their own donor, there is almost no chance of an adverse allergic reaction, which happens when the body overreacts to a foreign substance.

However, while getting a PRP injection in Gig Harbor is usually safe, it may not be suitable for individuals with certain blood conditions. That’s why we’ll conduct a thorough consultation with you before recommending PRP treatment or any other treatment for your chronic pain or injury.

If you’re concerned about the safety of a PRP injection in Gig Harbor, contact us to find out more.

Schedule a PRP Consultation For PRP Injection in Gig Harbor, WA

PRP treatment is on the cutting-edge of regenerative therapy and can help with both chronic and acute pain. If you’re curious or want to try it yourself, why not schedule a PRP injection in Gig Harbor, WA? Give Port Orchard Natural Medicine a call today and find out how PRP can improve your life. 

 

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